Incandescent vapor-burner.



No. salsz. Patented sept. 3,` mol. T. Gannon.

INCANDESCENT VAPUR BURNER. (Application ma sept. 14, laos.)

(No Modal.)

UNTTTD dTnTns PATENT Trice.

THOMAS GORDON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PENN- SYLVANIA GLOBE GAS LIGHT COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HNCANDESCENT VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 681,852, dated September 3, 1901. Application tiled September 14,1899. Serial No. 730,394. (No model.)

To all whom z5 may concern: Fluid entering by Way of the supply-pipe Be itknown that I, THOMAS GORDON, aciti- 4 traverses the passage 2. From thence it zen of the United States, and a resident of the passes through the superheater, from which city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, it is delivered to the tip 7. Gas issuing from 5 5 5 andState of Pennsylvania,haveinvented certhe tip 7 induces a current of air, and the tain new and useful Improvements in Incanmixture of air and gas burns and heats the descent Vapor-Burners, of which the followmantle or incandescent S after the manner ing is a specification. ot' a Bunsen burner.

The principal object of the present inven- The described construction possesses 6o 1o tion is to provide a simple, reliable, and efmarked advantages, among which attention cient hydrocarbon burner adapted for use maybe directed to the following: In starting in connection with Vielsbach and other inthe light access may be had to 'the passage 2 candescents or mantles and constructed to and superheater 5 for the purpose of preheatconsume even low test oil, such as is freing these parts in order to generate vapor and 65 z5 quently designated kerosene produce a supply at the tip 7. For this pur- To this and other ends my invention compose alcohol may be burned in the cup ll or prises the improvements hereinafter dethe flame of a torch may be used, and in scribed and claimed. either case the flame effectively reaches the The nature, characteristic features, and described parts which it is necessary to pre- 7o 2o scope of the invention will be more fully unheat. It' this were not so, great difficulty derstood from the following description,taken would be encountered and much skill would in connection with the accompanying drawbe required to start the burner. To propings, forming part hereof, and in which erly gasify heavy oil for use in a Bumsen Figure lis a view, partlyin central section, burnerarranged to heat mantles or incandes- 2 5 illustrating a hydrocarbon-burner embodycents requires conditions which are fuliilled ing features of my invention; and Fig. 2 is a in the described device. In the rst place, the sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. oil must be vaporized and the vapor must be In the drawings, l is a burner body or head heated, but not too highly, and yet sufficiently provided Withinits Walls with an internal pashigh to prevent its condensatlon prior to its 8o 3o sage, conduit, or channel 2, which operates escape in the form of a jet along With the air.

as a primary vaporizer, as will be presently In the operation of the described apparatus described. As shown, this passage 2 is anthe oil is primarily vaporized and preparedfor nular in form and is interrupted, as bya parits passage through the part 5 While traverstition 3. ing the passage 2. To this passage heat is 8f 35 4 is a supply pipe which communicates imparted from at or near the base or root of with the passage 2 at one side of the partithe flame Which heats the mantle. The part tion 3. 12 When present operates to conduct heat.

5 is a superheater or secondary vaporizer, The vapor so created and prepared is in its of which one end communicates with the paspassage through the superheater 5 exposed 9o 4o sage 2at the other side of the partition 3 and to the heat of that part of the flame in which of which the other end is extended across to the temperature is comparatively low, and join the pipe or conduit 6, that leads to the the vaporization is completely eiective Withtip 7. The superheater 5 is shown as located out deposition of carbon. The heating eect, Wit-hin the mantle or incandescent 8, and its due to the coaction of the passage 2 and the 95 45 ends range crosswise of the burner body or superheater 5, results in the production of head l. gasilied oil of such character that there is 9 is a defiector that may be employed, and practically no deposit-ion of carbon or conlO represents a gauze or other foraminous densation in or upon the passages and constructure, which is a usual provision of such duits and of such character that there is proloo go burners, and above which there is a chamber duced a most eective heating-flame.

in which the combustion of the iiame occurs. It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains that modil fications may be made in details without-departing from the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement set forth, and illustrated in the drawings; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.-

1. In a hydrocarbon-burner, the combinaa divided annular passage that encircles the root of. the burner-dame for primarily heating oil, asupplypipe in communication with one part of said passage, and a secondary or superheating vaporizing chamber or conduit in communication with another part of the passage and projecting into the body of the same burner-flame from Within the burner-v head, substantially as described.

2. In a hydrocarbon-burner, the combination of a burner-head having within its wall a divided annular passage that encircles the root of the burner-flame for primarily heating oil, a supply-pipe in communication with one part of said passage, a secondary or superheating vaporizing chamber or conduit communicating with'another part of said passage ing oil, a supply-pipe in communication with f said channel or passage, a secondary vaporizer or superheater consisting of an invertedthe combina@ and extending into the body of the flame and transversely of said combustion chamber, substantially as described.

Y 3. In a hydrocarbon-burner, tion of a primary vaporizing passage or conduit that encircles the root of the main burnerflame,a mixing-chamber,a combustion-chamber adjacent to the mixing-chamber a foraminous diaphragm interposed between the twochambers,and a secondary vaporizer or superheater arranged in said combustion-chamber in position to be heated by the body of the main burner-flame,substantially as described.

4. In a hydrocarbon-burner, the combination of a burner-head, afforaminous diaphragm which divides said burner-head into an upper or combustion chamber and a lower or mixing chamber, an annular duct within l. the wall of the combustion-chamber for primarily heating oil, a supply-pipe in communication with said duct, and a secondary vaporizer or -superheater communicating with i said duct and projecting into the body of the tion of a burner-head having within its wall i tion-chamber and having a vapor-discharge opening arranged below the mixing-chamber,

main burner-flame from Within the combusrizer or superheater in contact with the iiame,

a mixing-chamber, a combustionf chamber adjacent to the mixing-chamber and surrounding said superheater, a foraminous diai phra gm between the chambers, and aprimary vaporizing-chamber surrounding the combustion-chamber and having one of its walls integral with the wall of the combustion-chamber, substantially as described.

6. A hydrocarbon-burner comprising the combination of a burner-head provided with a channel or passage for primarily Vaporiz- U-shaped tube extending upward from within the burner-head, and having one of its L tip,

substantially as described.

THOMAS GORDON.

Witnesses:

W. J. JACKSON, DORA STERNBERGER. 

